~ Thinking Through and Against Received Opinion

Speaking of people having been stripped of opportunity . . . while some things may indeed be rotten in Denmark (and Venezuela, and everywhere else), do take a moment to weep for Trish . . . and, yes, for America . . . where very obviously the level of public discourse is. . . well . . . simply and always . . . ‘exceptional.’

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6 thoughts on “Speaking of people having been stripped of opportunity . . . while some things may indeed be rotten in Denmark (and Venezuela, and everywhere else), do take a moment to weep for Trish . . . and, yes, for America . . . where very obviously the level of public discourse is. . . well . . . simply and always . . . ‘exceptional.’”

My apologies, Dave. I didn’t intend to make anyone angrier than they already were. My wife shared this with me over breakfast, and I must confess that I had a bit of a chuckle. I mean: how dumb does the American establishment presume average Americans to be? Although I’m left wondering whether Trish Regan doesn’t get to keep her job for actually being as daft as she makes herself out to be.

But who knows? Maybe it was a comedy routine, a sort of parody of non-American caricatures of American intellectual culture. I can sense how that argument might plausibly be made . . . 😉